Throwing Out the Emancipated Subject With the Bathwater
The Future of the Individual and the Impotence of Collapse-narratives in a Post-Covid World
It's been the default position for dissidents of the past few years (but in keeping with a much older epistemological tendency which really saw its literary zenith in the 20th century) to resist modernity in a personal, abstract way whilst letting it be on a societal level.
The conceit is that 'modernity' (which we're to believe is a perversion of the w…
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